I have seen the pattern %_{} being used to match against structs (notice the _ after the %). Is this documented somewhere? It seems to match structs but I’d like to know if I am misisng something.

I’m not sure if there is real documentation around this. But at least, I found in the 1.3.0 changelog this: [Kernel] Allow variable struct names when matching, for example, %module{key: "value"} = struct [image] Release v1.3.0 · elixir-lang/elixir Official announcement: https://elix…

Wow, that makes sense, I thought it was special syntax :smiley:

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Pattern match a struct using %_{}, How does that work?

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minhajuddin July 2, 2018, 8:22am 3

Wow, that makes sense, I thought it was special syntax